perplexica:lana-loves-lingua-latina:lunacalypso:Senatus Populusque Romanus.ROOOOOOMAAAAAAAAANSDoes a
perplexica:lana-loves-lingua-latina:lunacalypso:Senatus Populusque Romanus.ROOOOOOMAAAAAAAAANSDoes anybody in this fandom care that Rome was a slave and plunder society which chose not to divvy up the wealth with the troops except by taking from weaker people in the ‘burbs, thus creating the civil wars leading to Caesar’s ambitious schemes, more slash and bash, and the collapse of the republic? The Empire became an upper crust excrescence fostering 18 centuries of slavery and providing (when re-branded during the Renaissance) the basis for European colonialism, racism and capitalist exploitation of non-Europeans and of European working folk who were required to spawn the muscle power for conquest. All Empires have behaved the same and have ended when eaten by some other Empire. And they all like to keep the rosy myth of a Senate and a People who share some heritage that matters.Just joking. I never dreamed for a minute that any of you cared. But when anyone mentions the New American Empire, yes, the shoe will fit - very very tightly.hey i care/aside from being a viabu/ i don’t know much about rome and its effects. i came to this fandom for the language. others in the fandom know a lot more than i do, and they probably already know that they wouldn’t really want to live there because it was so crazy and violent and that the government was a mess. regardless, a fandom is a group of fans, people who like a certain thing, whether it is good or bad. there are some beautiful things about the romans and the roman empire. yes, we get that some people were attractive. they left behind so much writing, art, fashion, language, and architecture, you can’t help but like the romans. relax. we’re just having fun in the fandom. we’re all fantasizing over rome, but if any of us latinists were to go there right now, i’m sure we wouldn’t survive. we’d all want to go home.but we’re living perfectly right now, aren’t we? -- source link
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